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SPACE AFFAIR VOLUME 14, an installation and environment by Nana Iwasaki

...in a quick look

Nana Iwasaki's "Space Affaire project" consists in a serie of installations she realized in different places and contexts, since 2001. The space affair installation number 14, presented in the Neutron Gallery in Kyoto combines many of the elements she obsessionally uses since the beginning of the serie: white or pink scuptures of a dog and of bodies balancing between human beings, puppets and larvas, moss, painted bubbles, resina's long items (lips, wounds, bumps, fur cushion...?). The moss, the sculpture of the dog or, in another Nana Iwasaki's installations, the bark of a tree are opened as if they were models for a botanic or biologic course: little pink balls or bumps seems to be the reality inside.

Each of Nana Iwasaki's installations is strictly conceived to be in line with its context, taking possession of a kind of big well (Ibaraki Festival 2006) or, in the case of the Neutron Gallery, of a more traditionnal white space closed by a huge glass wall similar to the window of a shop. This on-site creation allows her to make her installations work as a little self-sufficient universe.

...as an experience

Space Affair first appears to us as a kind of black painted bubbles invasion, getting out of the moss mounds and spreading all over the walls. We don't feel any fear, we don't see any veiled threat: bubbles are just transforming our space, filling it with a sensation of lightness and ethereal presence.

When we enter into the installation, its different components provide as many questions as explanations, appealing to our intuition and sensitivity to build our own interpretations. References to the japanese cosmogony and to the role it gives to the nature are mixed with personal references creating a bitter yet light atmosphere of nostalgy.

...and its intentions

Space affaire is a personal interpretation of nostalgy, which manages to materialize with a soft and sweet environment, the fleeing notion of melancholy. Those fissures, that open hte bbody of the dog or the mount of moss, can refer to a wound as well as to an interface with the depth as an unreachable reality. The black bubbles filling the space might actually be the emanations of this reality.

Those pink openings, standing for a sentimental wound as well as for the strong materiality of the flesh, are also the way the different actors of the scene seem to communicate between themselves: in the absence of language and verbal communication, a kind of invisible fluid or gas is circulating bewteen the human puppet, the natural elements and what may be a dog. The space affair serie tries by this way to recreate a small universe with many immaterial interactions between its different components and a strong interface between the human being and its environment.